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Phillies To Resume Season Tonight

By Steve Adams | August 3, 2020 at 9:20am CDT

The Phillies announced this morning that their latest wave of testing again revealed no new positive Covid-19 tests. The team is traveling to New York to play the Yankees in the Bronx tonight, per the announcement. Jake Arrieta is lined up to face Gerrit Cole in tonight’s series opener, and Aaron Nola is starting tomorrow night’s game, per the team.

It’ll be the first game for the Phillies since last Sunday’s game against the Marlins. The Miami organization housed Major League Baseball’s first team outbreak, prompting the Phillies’ season to be paused as the league conducted additional testing and contact tracing. The Phillies did wind up with positive tests among the team’s coaching and clubhouse staff, which might have served to further delay their return to the field, but their players have consistently tested negative. They’ll get back to game action tonight in New York but are well behind schedule, with just three games in the books to date.

In a season that would’ve only included six scheduled off-days, the loss of a full week right out of the gate is particularly tough for the Phillies. They’ll seek to make up for lost time with doubleheaders and some added games on what would’ve otherwise been days off. As it stands, they’re set for a four-game, home-and-home series against the Yankees this week before hosting the Braves at Citizens Bank Park next weekend.

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  1. DarkSide830

    6 months ago

    ugh. just as long as VV isnt lined up for it.

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    • mikemcsaudi

      6 months ago

      Maybe this is hours you bypass the third and fourth starters.

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      • Connorsoxfan

        6 months ago

        Any word on if Spencer Howard coming up soon or not?

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        • VonPurpleHayes

          6 months ago

          Nope. Don’t want to rush him.

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        • Connorsoxfan

          6 months ago

          Interesting ok. He was my spec stash in my fantasy league (deep enough this makes sense) and they had a report speculating he would be called up to pitch at the end of the week (before their cancellations obviously)

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    • MikeyHammer

      6 months ago

      I feel this season could be an opportunity to let Howard and Medina take the inevitable lumps young starters usually must endure while figuring things out. As much as I like Velasquez and Pivetta’s skills, they haven’t progressed. I’d let them pitch out of the pen behind those kids.

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  2. VonPurpleHayes

    6 months ago

    Arrieta is starting tonight. So they’re not bypassing starts. To be fair, these guys need to pitch. I don’t see how any team in baseball can overcome a full week + off while the rest of the teams are essentially playing without days off. Phillies will have to get in the groove all over again, and they didn’t look that great against the Marlins to begin with. It seems an insurmountable task, especially for a team that already had quite a few problems. Arrieta vs. Cole. No easy task. May as well jump right into it.

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    • DarkSide830

      6 months ago

      do we have a word on Eflin? i really think we need him to be able to do anything this year and the fact that theyre bypassing only him concerns me.

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      • VonPurpleHayes

        6 months ago

        They haven’t announced Tuesday’s started. It would normally be Eflin, but at this point they may go back to Nola. Maybe Eflin can take VV’s spot? VV looked so good in spring training though. I’m hoping his Marlins start was a hiccup, but I’m afraid it’s same old VV.

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        • Steve Adams

          6 months ago

          They did announce Nola as the starter tomorrow.

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        • VonPurpleHayes

          6 months ago

          There we go. It must have updated recently. Makes sense.

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    • thughand

      6 months ago

      To be fair, they haven’t looked good against the Marlins in years. For some reason, the fish just want to play decent baseball against this team. But, yeah, that wasn’t a good momentum-building opening series for this sprint. Also, I met Von Hayes as a kid, while he had a voluptuous, hairsprayed 1980’s lady on each arm. He gave me an autograph and a wink as I stood, mouth agape, at his impressive situation. He was forever my favorite player after that.

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      • VonPurpleHayes

        6 months ago

        Nice thughand! I met him briefly when Mike Schmidt got inducted into the Hall of Fame. I got his autograph. He was my favorite player growing up as well. Seems like a real nice guy!

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        • toooldtocare

          6 months ago

          Wasn’t Von Hayes the guy Pete Rose called “ 5 for 1” when Phillies got him from the Tribe?

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        • VonPurpleHayes

          6 months ago

          Yup. The infamous 5 for 1 trade. It was panned at the time, but considering Hayes steady numbers in Philly, I actually think the trade worked in their favor. Here’s a cool article: talksportsphilly.com/2014/05/five-for-one-trade/

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        • toooldtocare

          6 months ago

          By the way, I’m from Dallas, and went to a game at Citizens Bank Park 3 years ago during my tour of all 30 MLB parks, and was very impressed with park, and how nice the folks there treated us. My compliments.

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      • Oscar Gamble

        6 months ago

        Great story thughand!

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  3. timpa

    6 months ago

    Don’t play for a week after only playing 3 games and get to face Gerrit Cole.

    Life aint fair.

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    • Vladguerrerojr20

      6 months ago

      It’s to the Yankees benefit though so nbd, at this rate Cole is going to make 20 starts in 60 games.

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      • lordd99

        6 months ago

        It’ll start backing up on them as missed games now turn into doubleheader’s later. He’ll still need standard days off, and DH’s complicate that.

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    • VonPurpleHayes

      6 months ago

      As a fan I agree, but as a player, I’m sure you want to play the best all the time. Got to beat the best to be the best. While the Yankees haven’t won any rings lately, I think this team is considered the cream of the crop in the East.

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      • DarkSide830

        6 months ago

        agreed there. you’d love to not face Cole, but if you want to win a title you have to beat pitchers of that caliber.

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        • BrixtonBrixton

          6 months ago

          The phillies arent a title caliber team darkside.

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        • DarkSide830

          6 months ago

          the goal is to get as far as you can, and to get anywhere in the playoffs you have to beat good pitchers. this team’s goal shouldn’t be to only get to the playoffs simply because they arent likely to get any further.

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        • VonPurpleHayes

          6 months ago

          Everyone is a title caliber team, especially this year. The best teams on paper rarely win it all.

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        • Francys01Francys08

          6 months ago

          You said everyone is a title caliber team. Are you kidding?

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        • VonPurpleHayes

          6 months ago

          I mean in a 60 game sprint. Why not? Would I beat on Baltimore, Boston or Pittsburgh? Nope, but stranger things have happened.

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  4. njbirdsfan

    6 months ago

    At this point the whole thing is ridiculous…you’ve got Atlanta and the Mets playing non-stop since the season started, Washington with a couple of days off and the Phillies and Marlins have 3 total games.

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    • DarkSide830

      6 months ago

      quite frankly its just good to see game action. if the Phillies dont get a minimum game number to qualify with win% i wolnt be too torn up. its 2020, any games are a win.

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    • Yank4Life

      6 months ago

      Basically the Fish & the Phillies will be playing doubleheaders the whole month. Hopefully their all healthy now or getting there.

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  5. Yank4Life

    6 months ago

    Yes, we finally get to see whose better tonight. Cole or Nola…lol

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    • VonPurpleHayes

      6 months ago

      It’s Cole vs Arrieta. Not Nola.

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    • Prospectnvstr

      6 months ago

      Cole pitches TONIGHT and NOLA pitches TOMORROW. I’d rather see which one pitches better on the SAME NIGHT.

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      • DarkSide830

        6 months ago

        i think it was sarcasm

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        • VonPurpleHayes

          6 months ago

          I mean Cole is the better Ace without a doubt, but I wouldn’t laugh at Nola. He’s legit despite last start.

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        • mikemcsaudi

          6 months ago

          Cole Hamels or Cole Irvin?

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        • whyhayzee

          6 months ago

          Apparently there’s a big contract middle finger injury making the rounds. Just sayin’.

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    • SalaryCapMyth

      6 months ago

      No, not really you don’t. Cole is going to pitch against a team that has had no opportunity to get any kind of rhythm at all and to no fault of there own. They’ve barely been through batting practice. Nola is pitching against a team that HAS had the time and opportunity to find a rhythm and stretch themselves out.

      It’s pretty much a Phillies team in spring training against a Yankees team that is all fired up and ready to go. Could you try and be a classier brand of Yankees fan? If the Braves were playing the Phillies, the last thing I would do is brag or talk smack right now.

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  6. Gigorilla

    6 months ago

    When do the Cards re-start?

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  7. lordd99

    6 months ago

    The Phils are about to have yet another doubleheader added. Tuesday night’s game in NY is almost guaranteed to be rained out based on the tropical storm.

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  8. choundchound

    6 months ago

    GL Phillies and their fans. Going to be another frustrating week I suspect.

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  9. whyhayzee

    6 months ago

    Let’s see. Who hasn’t played in a week? Ok, let them play the yankees. Good one. Are the Marlins next? I hope the yankees go 59 and 1 and the postseason is cancelled. Or better, the whole miserable wretched team gets sick. Oh, never mind. MLB will come up with some way to rig it for them to win. What a joke.

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    • DarkSide830

      6 months ago

      the Phillies were lined up to play the Yankees last week. this was the most logical way to restructure the schedule.

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    • MikeyHammer

      6 months ago

      I think you may be on to something. In fact, this whole pandemic may be fabricated by The Yankees and MLB solely to pad their WS totals. Ugh.

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      • whyhayzee

        6 months ago

        My last two words are “a joke”.

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        • filthyrich

          6 months ago

          Whole thing seemed like a joke!

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  10. Buzzed Capra

    6 months ago

    Yeah considering they’ve won only one World Series since 2000, it looks like MLB has been really trying to rig it for the Yanks every year. If they have, then they aren’t very good at rigging.

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  11. SalaryCapMyth

    6 months ago

    I’m a Braves fan so it’s my job to hate the Phillies but I just can’t right now. It has to be tough to start up in ST then stop. Then restart play for a little while and then stop again and then start one more time. That sort of thing makes it impossible to get any kind of rhythm going.

    I hope the Phillies can overcome this but if they can’t, there won’t be any braying from me about it. If there is a contender that deserves a mulligan, it’s the Phillies.

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    • VonPurpleHayes

      6 months ago

      Good sentiments, but I expect other teams are going to face these same hardships. This is going to be the hardest 60 game stretch ever. Not to mention the playoffs.

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      • SalaryCapMyth

        6 months ago

        Maybe they will. No reason to believe another team can’t have an outbreak, obviously, but for the moment, the Phillies are unique in that they were the victim of a team outbreak that wasn’t even on there team while also being a contender.

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  12. clepto

    6 months ago

    I notice Kreckert didnt weigh in on this article. Hmm….wonder why?

    Lets be reasonable, people….the wifi probably didnt penetrate the steel closet doors and 3 blankets he is under. Here is to hoping he is ok and in good health.

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  13. Gigorilla

    6 months ago

    Cards cancel again —-
    cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-schedule-altered-by-cov…

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  14. kreckert

    6 months ago

    As a Phillie fan I’ll be watching. While it lasts, it’s better than nothing I suppose. Still, there’s nothing in any of this to feel optimism, or encouragement about.

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    • clepto

      6 months ago

      You know there are pills for chronic depression.

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      • kreckert

        6 months ago

        True.

        Too bad there’s no pill to help you stop being apathetic, subhuman garbage. Maybe someday…

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        • clepto

          6 months ago

          How many blankets you hiding under? I guessed 3. More? You have a thunder blanket too, Captain Panic Monger?

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  15. Alexander

    6 months ago

    This is going be a colossal ass whooping for the Phillies.

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  16. DarkSide830

    6 months ago

    yep, this is why we never should have picked up Guerra

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